A new study by the Pew Environment Group
recommends reforms to close gaps in oversight, response planning and risk assessment
associated with proposed oil and gas development in Alaska's Arctic Ocean. The study,
"Oil Spill Response in the U.S. Arctic Ocean: Unexamined Risks, Unacceptable
Consequences," is the most comprehensive analysis yet on challenges to preventing and
containing spills along the nation's northernmost coast. A bill now before the U.S. Senate
would strengthen review and oversight not just in the Arctic but in all U.S. coastal
waters.

Despite repeated statements from the EPA
and NOAA assuring residents that thorough Gulf of Mexico seafood testing has revealed
levels safe for human consumption, public skepticism has continued to deter many locals
from their usual seafood medley. Independent scientists have expressed concern over the
published methods and protocols used by federal agencies to open sensitive fishing grounds
& determine seafood safety. Invertebrates, such as shrimp, crab, & oysters, are of
particular concern due to their feeding habits, relatively stationary lifestyle, and
inability to process highly toxic compounds found in crude oil called Polycyclic Aromatic
Hydrocarbons (PAH). Unfortunately, their concerns have proven valid.

One local activist, "Mac"
Mackenzie of NOLA Emergency Response, decided that it was time to take matters into her
own hands. After an incessant 7-week investigation, Mac was able to obtain crucial
information from our government regarding the specifics of Gulf shrimp testing.
Particularly in the Gulf of Mexico, it is common for shrimp to be prepared and even served
whole, with the shell and digestive tract intact. When Mac learned that the Gulf shrimp
testing performed to date had not included an analysis of whole shrimp with intact shells
or digestive tract, she decided to mobilize. She obtained two pounds of locally caught
shrimp from Venice, a small town located in the heart of Southern Louisiana. The samples
were promptly transported on ice to a laboratory in Mobile Alabama, where Chemist Dr.
Robert Namen tested the digestive tracts of the shrimp for components of crude oil. What
they found was an alarming 193 parts per million of "Oil & Grease."

--

NOAA Official Asks EINNEWS to Withdraw
Story Questioning Safety of Gulf Seafood

A U.S. government spokesperson reacted
sharply today to an EIN news story questioning the safety of gulf seafood, saying
"the veracity of the federal government seafood safety protocol or results are not in
question by any qualified scientist." EINNEWS said it stands by its story.

Last week one spot on the coast of
Mississippi showed up to 90% of the Oysters on a farm are dead. *Curiously, Matt Simmons,
the very harsh leading critic of the oil industries, the Government and BP specifically,
just happened to die last month. He was predicting this would become a long rage
catastrophe.* He had credentials. He was an ex oil man. Was only 67. 'Drowned' in his hot
tub, alone.

BP took part in a Rehearsed Oil
Spill in 2001 - 2002 in Norway dubbed "Operation Deep Spill"

This video which is not mine, exposes a
confidential report of an experiment done in Norway in 2000 but a consortium of oil
companies including BP and the US government showing how a deep water blowout would create
clouds of super toxic oil which could not be recovered. Was it a surprise that most of the
oil from the BP well stayed in the Gulf of Mexico, at depth, in clouds of small particles?
It may have been to us but it shouldn't have been to BP or MMS (the government agency
whose job it is to regulate deep water drilling). It also should have come as no surprise
to NOAA (the government agency that regulates anything in the sea around the U.S.) All of
those institutions did deny the first reports of the clouds when they were found by the
Pelican research vessel and the University of Missisippi's Dr. Ray Highsmith and his crew.
But they must have known because MMS and the oil companies paid for, and conducted an
experiment off the coast of Norway in 2000 to see what would happen in a deepwater oil
well blowout. Remember all that "this is a new problem" you heard on television?
Well the study showed that the oil would not all rise to the surface to be collected but
would tend to form cloud layers of neutrally buoyant particles that might be the most
toxic part of the oil.

Are the beaches of America's Gulf Coast
really 'open for business' after the BP oil spill? An intensive investigation uncovers a
series of cover-ups in place of a long-term fix. As the oil spillage on Florida beaches is
merely covered with sand, jellyfish stained in oil wash ashore and fishermen experience
numerous health problems. With Dr Riki Ott comparing these to "problems suffered by
workers on the Exxon Valdez disaster", it appears that Obama's assertion that the
disastrous BP oil spill fiasco has been resolved is far from the truth. Will the situation
ever be rectified and most importantly, what are BP and the US authorities going to do?

Doctors, researchers, scientists and
citizens, like Dr. Solomon, are waging a silent battle against government agencies that
are failing to fulfill their own organizational directives. As Project Gulf Impact gathers
more firsthand accounts of how the Gulf of Mexico is being dangerously neglected, the
situation in the Gulf grows worse. With new reports of oil washing onto shore and into the
bayou, the numbers of affected life are increasing, not dropping. Several of our
interviews have left us asking, why is organized, decisive action not being taken?

BP Carpet Bombed The Gulf With
Corexit Poisoning Marine Life, Workers

Corexit may affect genetic material. May
cause adverse reproductive effects and birth defects based on animal test data. The
government states the dispersant Corexit 9500A is no more toxic than crude oil. Crude oil
is toxic to humans above 11 parts per million and there are locations in the gulf showing
15-221 parts per million. They say the combination of corexit and crude oil is more toxic
than the oil itself. Many reports show they have no way of testing the levels of corexit
and oil combined. What about the health and safety of the public? Where does this leave
the public?

Dr. Michael Harbut is Professor of Internal
Medicine and Director of the Environmental Cancer Program at Karmanos Cancer Institute at
Wayne State University in Detroit. Dr. Harbut is one of the foremost experts in the
country on the health impact of petroleum products and dispersants. Unlike many of the
"medical experts" in the Gulf of Mexico, Dr. Harbut is not on BP's payroll, has
not accepted any of BP's "research" grants, and is willing to speak the truth.
Here is a partial transcript of his research findings: There is data that shows that some
of the animal life, some of the fish life, may eat some of these petroleum products and
there may be mutagens or carcinogens formed in the life form, in the fish, or the sea,
living creatures, which ultimately could become food, in terms of mutagens and what are
called endocrine disruptors. Many of the chemicals in the petroleum mixture have been
implicated as endocrine disruptors, meaning that they are recognized by the body as being
hormones, most often female hormones. There is discussion, and there is information in the
literature which says that the ingestion of agents which cause the creation of these
endocrine disruptors may contribute to the epidemic in the US of early onset of menses,
precocious puberty, and testicular abnormalities that we've seen in animal life. Nobody
knows for sure, but it's certainly the 900-lb gorilla in the room, along with the other
two 900 lb gorillas being the mutagens and the carcinogens.

Susan references the chemical
"dipropylene glycol methyl ether," which is found in the chemical composition of
Corexit 9500, below. Susan also references BP's recent launch of the grade-school
education program, which seeks to teach children how the cleanup process works, and that
the seafood is safe, among other things. "The primary purpose [of the demonstration]
is to inform and educate students on the methods used to clean up the oil in the Gulf and
the wetlands and marshes," Janella Newsome, BP media liaison said in a press release.
"It's also to dispel myths about dispersants, subsurface oil and seafood
safety." "This is the first session of many going on," Charles Gaiennie, a
BP representative said at Oaklawn's library last week. "We are starting here in
Terrebonne Parish with eighth grade because they are the first of school age kids that
have a defined science class. We wanted to reach out to schools that are near communities
that have been directly impacted by the oil spill, so Terrebonne was a good choice.
There's a lot of information that's out there isn't current or accurate." "The
plan is to conduct these science projects in affected parishes including Terrebonne,
Iberia, Vermillion, Jefferson, Lafourche, Plaquemines, Orleans, St. Bernard, St. Mary and
St. Tammany," Newsome said. "The science project was very successful very well
received by students [at Oaklawn]."

Susan also references BP's "Dockside
Chats." Per bpcomplaints.com, the dockside chats allow "for a dialogue between
local fishermen and representatives from government agencies engaged in rigorous efforts
to ensure Gulf seafood safety following the oil spill." According to
restorethegulf.gov, dockside chats were launched "in order to promote accurate
information about the safety of Gulf seafood from waters open to fishing." The chats
are "designed to engage fishers, shrimpers, oystermen and crabbers, as well as local
officials in discussions about steps being taken to verify the safety of Gulf
seafood."

Spraying with no light at night...
The people on board thought the boat was on fire...
We kept smelling burnt wire, we didn't realize it was the smell of arsenic...
It's the chemicals that were being sprayed that left that smell. ...
Our lungs fill up with fluid, cant breathe... terrible, terrible headaches, skin
lesions...
I want to live to see my granddaughter...
People we really need help...
Denied copy of own incident report...
We just want medical help...

This is a report from WWL 4, a local TV
station in New Orleans. Some of the scientists researching the toxic impact of the BP Oil
disaster have received threatening phone calls from the National Oil Spill Commission,
which was set up by Obama to determine the cause of the disaster. The calls came from
attorneys for the Commission, which were threatening in nature, and designed to cast doubt
on their findings. "We've found an alarming pattern of hydrocarbons in the water
column, at levels that are hazardous to the marine environment" Dr. William Sawyer,
Florida Toxicologist. "If we're finding so much more of the toxic part of the oil in
the water column, the obvious question is what is happening to the seafood?" Marco
Kaltofen, Environmental Scientist. In the seafood, they found the presence of potentially
toxic hydrocarbons, at levels above the norm. Even though they had yet to issue a report
drawing any conclusions, they began posting their data online. Then, they received the
phone calls. At first the scientists were supposedly contacted in response to a complaint
from a seafood distributor. Then the Commission said they needed to find out if the
scientists had the proper "permits" to test the water. The final
"official" reason for the contact is because the Commission was "impressed
with their work" Apparently like BP, the Oil Spill Commision has a hard time keeping
track of all their lies!

BP - Chamberless Gassing Corexit

Dark Mark: 100 Days of Oil

It has been 100 days since an explosion
tore apart the Deepwater Horizon drilling platform. That event unleashed a gush of oil
into the Gulf of Mexico, creating an environmental catastrophe and forever altering life
along these shores. (July 28)

Susan Shaw: The oil spill's toxic
trade-off

Break down the oil slick, keep it off the
shores: that's grounds for pumping toxic dispersant into the Gulf, say clean-up overseers.
Susan Shaw shows evidence it's sparing some beaches only at devastating cost to the health
of the deep sea.

Thousands More Dead Fish Turn Up in
La. Waters

Thousands more dead fish have turned up in
Plaquemines Parish, the second large such kill in the area in the past few days.

FDA admits NOT testing for mercury,
arsenic, or other TOXIC HEAVY METALS in crude oil

BP Gulf oil spill has been
discovered on Gulf sea floor 70 miles long 2

Thousands of People Along the Gulf
Coast Suffer 'BP Crud'

This interview is with Robin Young, a
resident of Orange Beach, AL, which was published by the Locust Fork News-Journal on
9-7-10. It is telling to note that the Washington Post was orginally supposed to publish
the interview, but decided instead to comply with the MSM-BP media blackout and ignore her
story. She is not a BP clean up worker. She is a Guest Services Director, and one of
the thousands of residents of the Gulf that have been poisoned by exposure to the toxic
stew created by BP. She came down with severe flu like symptoms, starting coughing up
blood and chemicals, and was essentially bedridden for 2 weeks straight. She knew she was
terribly sick, and knew that it was a result of her exposure to the BP oil and
dispersants. She found an independent Doctor and lab willing to test her blood, and the
results that came back are off the charts. Her blood tests identified high levels of toxic
compounds, including hexane, xylene, ethylbenzene, methylpentane, and others, all directly
attributable to her exposure to the BP oil spill and the dispersants used. She will now
need a high resolution scan of her brain, lungs, liver and kidney to determine the extent
of the damage to her body and to help determine a treatment protocol. In this interview
she says "It comes into your body, goes into your bloodstream, settles into the fatty
tissue and organs, and doesn't go anywhere. In 5-10 years we will come down with some God
awful form of cancer"

Race for Riches: Will the Arctic
see battle over oil & gas?

A joint U.S.-Canadian expedition is set to
kick off to map the Arctic ocean bed. A Russian exploration ship is already on its way to
the polar waters. The three nations are gathering evidence in a bid to claim the immense
energy resources of the region. The Arctic is believed to hold much of the world's
untapped oil and gas reserves. RT talks to Edward Struzik, a Canadian researcher, to
discuss the future of the region.

"On Sunday, August 15th, fishing
families from across the Gulf Cost will gather in Panama City Beach, Florida, with a
message for President Obama: The Gulf of Mexico is still infused with oil and dispersants
from the BP disaster, threatening marine life, livelihoods, and the health of the American
people." "Fishermen do not want to lose our credibility or deliver contaminated
seafood to market and make people sick." - Kathy Birren. "While President Obama
and state officials claim that the Gulf is 'open for business,' these fishermen say the
spraying of dispersants in the Gulf of Mexico is ongoing and they're concerned that
seafood pulled from impacted waters is unsafe for eating." "The tissue testing
of this seafood is inadequate and testing for the toxic dispersants is non-existent."
- Tracy Kuhns, Louisiana Bayoukeeper. "I think it is crucial for the public to be
made aware of the concerns of the commercial fishermen. And if a commercial fisherman who
makes his living off of those products doesn't want to deliver them to the public, the
public needs to know why." - Chris Bryant, Commercial Fisherman

Journalist Sprayed With Poisonous
Corexit 9500

Author and Journalist Summer Burkes talks
about her experience being sprayed with the toxic dispersant Corexit! An incredible Must
Watch that shows how irresponsibly poison is being sprayed in the Gulf!

Blood tests on Gulf residents show
ethylbenzene and other hydrocarbons

Interview with Matt Smith and Heather Rally
of Project Gulf Impact, Intel Hub Radio. HEATHER RALLY: Residents living near gulf, not
workers. Orange Beach, Alabama/Florida area. Blood tests for positive for various
different hydrocarbons like ethylbenzene. MATT SMITH: Everyone is getting sick, people are
going to keep getting sick... from how the oil is getting aerosolized, becoming an
aerosol, especially with storms and rain. ... Help from Michelle Nix, Gulf Coast
Volunteers and Sassafras. ... We've had it analyzed from three different sources. RALLY:
Testing is the only thing that will prove concretely that they are being exposed...
Problems may occur now or in 20 years... Cancer does take time to develop... Testing is a
huge priority for us because these people need proof.

This is some raw video footage taken from a
Project Gulf Impact boat trip we took on August 24th, 2010. Within minutes of departing in
Perdido Bay, Florida, we came across massive amounts of oil that had been obviously
freshly sprayed with Corexit. The problem was, the dispersed oil wasn't just in one place,
but it was everywhere we went between there and Dauphin Island, AL. This is one of the
worst we have ever seen it, with the dispersant still in powder form in some cases. This
is happening in massive quantities across the Gulf of Mexico everyday. For those of you
who don't know, Corexit 9500 and 9527A (the oil dispersant) are some of the most poisonous
substances on Earth. They are greatly impacting our Gulf, and the animals and HUMANS who
reside in it. Help support Project Gulf Impact's continuing efforts to get the truth out
to the public, get aid to the people who need it most.

Obama Administration and BP of
Underestimating Amount of Oil Left in Gulf

Fishing Industry in Gulf Still
Worried About Levels of Toxins in the Water

The impact of the oil spill

After the Oil Spills: Deepwater
Horizon Case Study - Preview

New Data Contradicts BP, Government
Findings

A new Georgia Sea Grant study finds that up
to 79% of the oil from the Deepwater Horizon spill may not be gone, contradicting first
reports by NOAA. 4.9 million barrels were involved in the spill and about 4.1 million
actually reached the Gulf. Based on estimates, high loss and low loss rates, 70-79% of the
oil remains in the ecosystem.

Gulf Spill Still Threatens Millions
of Migrating Birds

Up to a billion migrating birds stop over
in the Gulf of Mexico region on their annual treks southward. Despite BP's capping of the
Deepwater Horizon leak, scientists say the birds may face ill effects from the Gulf oil
spill for years to come.

Filmmakers Alison Fast and Chandler Griffin
will post videos periodically to this channel, in an effort to document the contributions
of "local heroes" and environmental watchdogs in coastal areas of Mississippi
that are deeply impacted by the consequences of the BP/Deep Water Horizon Spill. Our
mission is to present positive, uplifting stories that can help to heal the coast,
families and businesses, while raising awareness nationally through media channels, about
the day-to-day issues faced by communities on the gulf coast of Mississippi as the cleanup
unfolds. The unique aspect of these videos is that they are told from the community
perspective. They are not new pieces, but an example of community-based storytelling as a
form of advocacy and support.

Seafood Safety in the Gulf

Now ABC news reports that fisherman are
finding shrimp covered in oil in BP Gulf Oil Spill waters being opened for fishing.

Glowing Oil Illuminate Gulf Beaches

A ghost crab eats oil from the Gulf of
Mexico spill, shown glowing yellow-orange under ultraviolet light, as part of an effort to
detect oil by shining UV lightswidely used to spot blood at crime sceneson
Gulf beaches. The method, he hopes, will allow scientists and cleanup crews to tackle
hard-to-spot oil, such as crude mixed with mud or light stains on sand, that's washed
ashore from the sinking of the BP-leased Deepwater Horizon rig.

Toxicologist: Corexit Blobs in Crab
Larvae

New findings back up the concern the
dispersant BP used so widely may do more harm than the oil itself. Researchers at Tulane
say it appears they've detected a Corexit sort of fingerprint in the orange blobs found
lodged in the bodies of tiny blue crab larvae collected from marshes that stretch from
Texas to Florida. Researcher Erin Grey said the results, while not conclusive, are likely.
She's waiting on two other independent tests. On May 20, 2010, EPA administrator Lisa
Jackson said, "this is unprecedented volumes of dispersants used so far" when
talking about the chemical dispersant known as Corexit being used to break down oil in the
Gulf of Mexico.

US spill sparks concerns in Canada

The fallout from the US oil disaster in the
Gulf of Mexico has rippled across the border to Canada. Exploration is under way close to
Canada's most eastern province to drill a well that would be more than a kilometre deeper
than BP's Deepwater Horizon rig that exploded in April. But concerns are mounting over
whether the Canadian oil exploration should continue.

Oil Spill Effects Spread to the
Children

As the oil spill cleanup drags on, children
along the Gulf Coast are struggling to deal with all the bad news...especially those in
families who depend on the local seafood industry to survive.

Environmental activist Jerry Cope has spent
the last few weeks traveling along the Gulf Coast and experiencing first-hand the
contamination in the air and water. In an article being published on Huffington Post, Cope
argues that instead of celebrating the allegedly vanishing oil, we should be concerned
about the disappearance of marine life in the Gulf. He describes the Gulf as a "kill
zone" and looks into where the marine animals have gone given that BP has reported a
relatively low number of dead animals from the spill. "What BP and U.S. Government
Don't Want You to Know"

Ruson Graybill, a commercial fisherman from
Louisiana, says there is still plenty of oil in coastal marshlands. He would love to
return to fishing, but worries the seafood isn't safe to eat.

Chemical Used to Clean Gulf Toxic?

The effort to skim, burn and break down oil
in the Gulf with chemical dispersants is proving effective but there are concerns about
the possible toxic effects of BP's primary used dispersant. Don Teague reports.

Twenty-one years ago, the Exxon Valdez ran
aground, spilling 40 million litres of crude oil into Prince William Sound and causing
irreversible damage. Now, Enbridge wants to bring the same risk to B.C.'s pristine coastal
waters and rainforest. The proposed Enbridge Northern Gateway Pipeline would carry oil
from the tar sands to a port at Kitimat, B.C. Supertankers fed by the Enbridge pipeline
would travel the same waters where the Queen of the North ferry sank in 2006.

British Petroleum (BP) energy giant is set
to formally announce a new CEO to replace Tony Hayward due to his handling of the Gulf of
Mexico oil spill. Hayward is reportedly leaving with a payout worth about $17 million and
is to be appointed to the board of BP's joint venture in Russia. His successor is slated
to be Robert Dudley, a senior American executive who is currently in charge of oil spill
clean-up efforts in the Gulf. Dudley will have to try and clean up the company's
reputation as well as the oil spill, but for those who have to deal with the layers of
crude in the Gulf of Mexico, the leadership change means little for now. The 90-day
shrimping season that hauls in a whole year's income for so many Gulf Coast boatmen has
been delayed because of the oil spill.

Chinese authorities struggling to contain
the environmental and economic damage of a major oil spill in the Yellow sea which began
last Friday. The pipeline has now been repaired, but the cause of the explosion that
ruptured it is unknown.

New fishoil by BP

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Williams testifies about Lack of
Safety at Oil Rig Hearing

Gulf toxicologist: Shrimpers
exposed to Corexit "bleeding from the rectum"

Rush Transcript Excerpt Susan Shaw, Marine
Toxicologist: If I can tell you what happens -- because i was in the oil -- to people...
Shrimpers throwing their nets into water... [then] water from the nets splashed on his
skin. ... [He experienced a] headache that lasted 3 weeks... heart palpitations... muscle
spasms... bleeding from the rectum... And that's what that Corexit does, it ruptures red
blood cells, causes internal bleeding, and liver and kidney damage. ... This stuff is so
toxic combined... not the oil or dispersants alone. ... Very, very toxic and goes right
through skin.

BP Using Oil Dispersant to Cover
Tracks? - Julia Whitty

Environmentalist and author Julia Whitty
accuses BP of using oil dispersant and methanol to distort the data on how many barrels of
oil have spilled into the Gulf of Mexico. She's convinced BP is simply "working the
angles" for their inevitable day in court.Julia Whitty talks about Deep Blue Home.
Whitty presents a penetrating exploration of the three-dimensional ocean river, far more
powerful than the Nile or the Amazon, encircling the globe. It's a watery force connected
to the earth's climate control and so to the eventual fate of the human race. Whitty is
the author of The Fragile Edge. - Book Passage

Julia Whitty is a writer and former documentary filmmaker. She is the author of Deep Blue
Home: An Intimate Ecology of Our Wild Ocean, due out July 2010, and of The Fragile Edge, a
book on coral reefs, winner of a PEN USA Literary Award, the John Burroughs Medal, the
Kiriyama Prize, and finalist for the Dayton Literary Peace Prize. Her short story
collection A Tortoise for the Queen of Tonga won an O. Henry and was a finalist for the
PEN Hemingway Award.

The cap on the oil leak in the Gulf of
Mexico off the US coast seems to be holding for now but the region's economy could be
suffering for years to come, and efforts to recoup lost earnings could be difficult.
Thousands of people who have been affected by the disaster are learning that compensation
cheques from British energy giant BP's settlement fund may not be as large as they
expected.

BP's plan to protect workers fighting the
massive oil spill in the Gulf, which the Coast Guard approved on May 25, exposes them to
higher levels of toxic chemicals than generally accepted practices permit.

Environmental advocate Van Jones reflects
on the BP oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico and what society must learn from the
catastrophe. "I've never heard of a wind slick; I've never heard of a sun
spill," says Jones. "There's a better way."

Florida Governor Charlie Crist is
apparently more worried about the state's economy than the health of vacationers and
residents. Crist told CBS on Saturday the water is safe and people shouldn't worry.
"It is safe," Crist declared, "there isn't a toxic nature to it that is
detrimental to anybody. It is much more of a nuisance than anything else at this
point." Crist is asking ill-informed beachgoers to endanger their health so the
state's tourism industry can be saved. "The Escambia County Health Department lifted
a health advisory on Pensacola Beach on Friday on the advice of a beach official and
against the advice of a federal environmental official," reports PNJ.com. Officials
want to leave the decision to swim in the Gulf of Mexico up to the discretion of
individual beachgoers. Signs would be posted from the Florida-Alabama line to just west of
Portofino Beach warning people about the toxic danger. The Environmental Protection Agency
plans to put decontamination stations along the beach.

Tar Balls Wash Up on Texas Beach

Tar balls from the Gulf oil spill have been
found on a Texas beach, and are the first evidence that gushing crude from the Deepwater
Horizon well has now reached all the Mexican Gulf states of the southern United States.

At a Transportation and Infrastructure
Committee markup of HR 5629, The "Oil Spill Accountability and Environmental
Protection Act of 2010" Congressman Jerrold Nadler offered an amendment to
discontinue the use of all toxic dispersants in the Deepwater Horizon BP oil spill, as
well as any other current or future oil spills, until appropriate research is done to
study the effects on humans and the environment.

Republicans Block Investigative
Power for Oil Spill Commission

Senate Democrats today asked unanimous
consent to pass legislation that would give the BP Oil Spill Commission the subpoena power
it needs to do its job. "Frankly, it's time we have a vote after so many Republican
objections to this commonsense legislation," said Sen. Robert Menendez. "[This
bill] asserts that we want to protect those families, taxpayers, not oil company
profits."

Greg Everson - 2nd Oil
Volcano, Tectonic Plate Shift

State Trooper Greg Everson speaks with
KNOWLEDGE of what people in the gulf states MUST do. Please do not go back into a sleep
hoping this wont happen! IT WILL! Get out now before its too late!

As Hurricane Alex is sweeping towards the
American coastline, it has already disrupted the oil spill containment efforts in the Gulf
of Mexico ...and drawn the crude to environmentally sensitive regions. Meanwhile further
inland, people are starting to complain about strange symptoms and illnesses that could be
related to the clean-up work.

Shell in Nigeria

CNN's Christian Purefoy speaks with the
managing director of Shell Nigeria about the oil company's record there.

New Oil Threatens Gulf Coast

On day 70 of the Gulf oil spill, new
streaks of oil are threatening Grand Isle's coastline. As Mark Strassmann reports,
residents are preparing for more damage to property.

BP Slick Covers Dolphins and Whales

This was the most emotionally disturbing
video I have ever done! A flight over the BP Slick Source where I saw at least 100
Dolphins in the oil, some dying. I also photographed a Sperm Whale covered in oil all
around it's blow hole. Please spread this around the world. Send me any links to places it
gets posted so I can follow. I want to piss off the world. Who will answer for these
gentle creatures?

A dire report prepared for President
Medvedev by Russia's Ministry of Natural Resources is warning today that the British
Petroleum (BP) oil and gas leak in the Gulf of Mexico is about to become the worst
environmental catastrophe in all of human history threatening the entire eastern half of
the North American continent with "total destruction". Russian scientists are
basing their apocalyptic destruction assessment due to BP's use of millions of gallons of
the chemical dispersal agent known as Corexit 9500 which is being pumped directly into the
leak of this wellhead over a mile under the Gulf of Mexico waters and designed, this
report says, to keep hidden from the American public the full, and tragic, extent of this
leak that is now estimated to be over 2.9 million gallons a day. Scientists Warn Gulf Of
Mexico Sea Floor Fractured "Beyond Repair" Scientists Warn Gulf Of Mexico Sea
Floor Fractured "Beyond Repair" By: Sorcha Faal, and as reported to her Western
Subscribers A dire report circulating in the Kremlin today that was prepared for Prime
Minister Putin by Anatoly Sagalevich of Russia's Shirshov Institute of Oceanology warns
that the Gulf of Mexico sea floor has been fractured "beyond all repair" and our
World should begin preparing for an ecological disaster "beyond comprehension"
unless "extraordinary measures" are undertaken to stop the massive flow of oil
into our Planet's eleventh largest body of water.

Gulf Oil Disaster: BP Cover Up of
Sick Humans and Dead Animals

Marine Biologist Riki Ott exposes BP's
cover up of human illness, and how animals are being removed by the dark of night to hide
the scale of disaster.

Dolphin Swimming in Oil Dies

Gulf coast rescuers attempted to save a
dolphin swimming in oil but it did not survive. Betty Nguyen reports.

Black Beach: BP's oil turns white
sands ugly

A cap is back in place on BP's broken oil
well after a deep-sea blunder forced crews to temporarily remove what has been the most
effective method so far of containing some of the massive Mexican Gulf oil spill.
Engineers used remote-controlled submarines to reposition the cap after it was off for
much of the day. It had captured 700,000 gallons (2.7 million liters) of oil in 24 hours
before one of the robots bumped into it. Meanwhile white Florida beaches are now turning
black. Video by Michael McLean.

Experts in the Gulf are concerned that oil
may kill off a certain type of algae that fish rely on for shelter and food. One biologist
says sargassum, or sea holly, has been sinking and washing up on beaches, making it
unavailable to marine life.

Greenpeace activists heckle BP
speech at London oil conference

Greenpeace gate-crashed the World National
Oil Companies Congress in London, just as the BP company's speaker was making his address.
BP executive Steve Westwell was heckled during his speech at the conference, where he was
standing in for embattled chief executive Tony Hayward. "Because BP is incapable of
telling you the truth, I'm going to tell you what you need to know," Greenpeace's
Emma Gibson told the audience at the Grange St Paul's hotel in The City. Another
Greenpeace campaigner, Katie Swan, got on stage with a banner reading "Go beyond
petroleum," a take on BP's slogan.

Kevin Costner helps clean up the BP
oil spill

The actor and environmental campaigner has
sold the oil giant 32 of his company's machines which separate oil from water. .

The Deepwater Horizon leak is now leading
to safety concerns on another BP rig in the Gulf of Mexico. The BP Atlantis is located in
more than 7000 feet of water, 150 miles south of New Orleans. According to a lawsuit filed
Monday in Houston, the rig is plagued by some of the same possible safety problems as the
Horizon. It claims the Department of the Interior allowed Atlantis to operate without
completed engineering blueprints needed to operate the rig safely. "This is not a
mere paperwork. Without these as-built drawings, the people that are working on these
rigs, are flying blind from the standpoint of how to safely operate BP rigs in the Gulf of
Mexico," said plaintiffs' attorney Mikal Watts. Watts represents the
environmental group Food and Water Watch and former BP sub-contractor Ken Abbott. BP fired
Abbott, a project control supervisor, last year after he voiced concerns about a lack of
documentation on Atlantis. "At BP, I beat my head against the wall, they didn't care,
the government agencies didn't care," said Abbott. Abbott said a congressional
investigation into the Deepwater Horizon spill indicated that BP could not locate detailed
drawings for the rig's blowout preventer and that workers wasted half a day trying to shut
off a valve that had already been disconnected. "BP and Transocean should have had
final drawings on that site," said Abbott. "Not having it could have given the
guys wrong readings and it could have caused them to make mistakes in a critical moment
that could have caused the accident."

Wildlife Apocalypse: Video of Gulf
birds, fish caught in BP oil spill

Wildlife apocalypse along the Gulf of
Mexico coast is fast becoming a reality. Pelicans are becoming trapped by the oil and dead
birds and dolphins have been washing ashore, coated in the sludge. Government officials
estimate that roughly 83 to 182 million litres of oil have leaked into the Gulf since the
April 20 explosion.

As part of Washington Unplugged's weeklong
series, "Disaster in the Gulf," Philippe Cousteau, grandson of oceanographer
Jacques Cousteau, is leading the charge on deep water cleanup efforts, but says the
media's coverage of the spill's early stages was "disappointing".

Waves of tar balls crashed onto the beaches
of the Florida Panhandle on Friday as BP engineers adjusted a cap over the Gulf oil
gusher. Local residents say BP should find resources to clean the beaches too. (June 4)

Scientists with the University of
South Florida say they've found a second oil plume

As if the pictures of birds, fish and
animals killed by floating oil in the Gulf of Mexico is not disturbing enough, scientists
now say they have found evidence of another danger lurking underwater. The University of
South Florida recently discovered a second oil plume in the northeastern gulf. The first
plume was found by Mississippi universities in early May. USF has concluded microscopic
oil droplets are forming deep water oil plumes. After a weeklong analysis of water
samples, USF scientists found more oil in deeper water. "These hydrocarbons are from
depth and not associated with sinking degraded oil but associated with the source of the
Deep Horizon well head," said USF Chemical Oceanographer David Hollander. Through
isotopic or microscopic fingerprinting, Hollander and his USF crew were able to show the
oil in the plume came from BP's blown out oil well. The surface oil's so-called
fingerprint matched the tiny underwater droplet's fingerprint. "We've taken molecular
isotopic approaches which is like a fingerprint on a smoking gun," Hollander said.

Video is from Alabama resident John Wathen
as a volunteer pilot flew him over the area where the oil rig sank. Officials have stopped
guessing at the amount of oil leaking although some speculate it may be closer to 1
million gallons per day. Don't let BP spin this into something trivial. "It's not a
leak, it's a volcano spewing oil"

The REAL REASON Behind the BP Oil
Spill in the Gulf of Mexico

Deregulation is the real (underlying)
reason / cause behind the US oil spill by British Petroleum (BP) in 2010 off the coast of
Louisiana in the Gulf of Mexico. Deregulation coupled with lax government oversight
(lackies appointed by Dick Cheney at the helm) lead to the omission of key safety features
and protocols, a free pass for drilling licenses, emphasis on profit over safety, and
absolutely NO PLAN for containment of blowouts.

For example, George W Bush and Dick Cheney
helped block a 2002/03 Bill that would have required the use of acoustic switches to
activate the blowout preventer (BOP). When the rig blew up, they had to MANUALLY activate
the switch by sending robotic submersibles. This was all but impossible since the rig was
in flames and the priority was putting it out and saving lives; this was easily foreseen.

In addition, BP did not want to lose an oil
well (by activating the BOP); this would have cost them future profit in addition to the
costs for exploration and preparation of the well. Eventually the rig collapsed and sank
to the ocean floor. Because the rig was STILL ATTACHED to the well head / BOP, it bent or
damaged the BOP making it unusable. Again, this is something that could have been
foreseen; i.e. the need to activate the BOP immediately in the case of catastrophic rig
failure, to avoid potential damage to the BOP. Profit wins over safety; BP must avoid
activating the BOP at all costs.

An acoustic switch would have allowed them
to IMMEDIATELY stop the well head (activate the BOP) as soon as the explosion happened.
The BOP would not have been at risk for failure (due to rig collapsing); but, the lack of
a remote switch and need to save the well (for profit and avoidance of loss) meant that
they delayed trying to activate it. By that time the damage to the BOP had been done.

Lastly, all of the post-blowout efforts
have been focused on SAVING the well; i.e. it was only after more than a month before BP
attempted the TOPKILL method, which would have sealed the well. Attempts before that were
about slowing the flow of oil or collecting it. Why did BP not try the TOPKILL method
right away?

The "small people" of the Gulf
Coast have a message for BP: They're tired of big-time execs making insensitive comments.
Residents were already angry at BP's CEO for "wanting his life back" when the
company's chairman made another blunder.

Fault Lines - In Deep Water

In the two months since the Deepwater
Horizon explosion, millions of litres of oil have gushed out of BP's well into the water
each day, slowly encroaching on the coastline. Fault Lines' Avi Lewis travels to the drill
zone, and learns about the erosion in the wetlands from industry canals and pipelines, the
health problems blamed on contaminated air and water from petrochemical refineries.

The chemical dispersants that BP is
usingtrying to fix the gigantic mess caused by their reckless actionsare not
making the oil go away. Instead, it's turning the thick black tide into titanic clouds
floating underneath the surface.

Shell Nigeria is one of the largest oil
producers in the Royal Dutch/Shell Group. 80% of the oil extraction in Nigeria is in the
Niger Delta, the southeast region of the country. The Delta is home to many small minority
ethnic groups, including the Ogoni, all of which suffer egregious exploitation by
multinational oil companies, like Shell. Shell provides over 50% of the income keeping the
Nigerian dictatorship in power. Although oil from Ogoniland has provided approximately $30
billion to the economy of Nigeria, the people of Ogoni see little to nothing from their
contribution to Shell's pocketbook. Shell has done next to nothing to help Ogoni. By 1996,
Shell employed only 88 Ogoni (0.0002% of the Ogoni population, and only 2% of Shell's
employees in Nigeria). Ogoni villages have no clean water, electricity, abysmal health
care, no jobs for displaced farmers and fisher persons and face the effects of
unrestrained environmental molestation by Shell everyday.

Since Shell began drilling oil in Ogoniland
in 1958, the people of Ogoniland have had pipelines built across their farmlands and in
front of their homes, suffered endemic oil leaks from these very pipelines, been forced to
live with the constant flaring of gas. This environmental assault has smothered land with
oil, killed masses of fish and other aquatic life, and introduced devastating acid rain to
the land of the Ogoni. For the Ogoni, a people dependent upon farming and fishing, the
poisoning of the land and water has had devastating economic and health consequences.
Shell claims to clean up its oil spills, but such "clean-ups" consist of
techniques like burning the crude which results in a permanent layer of crusted oil metres
thick and scooping oil into holes dug in surrounding earth.

Both Shell and the government admit that
Shell contributes to the funding of the military in the Delta region. Under the auspices
of "protecting" Shell from peaceful demonstrators in the village of Umeuchem (10
miles from Ogoni), the police killed 80 people, destroyed houses and vital crops. Shell
conceded it twice paid the military for going to specific villages. Although it disputes
that the purpose of these excursions was to quiet dissent, each of the military missions
paid for by Shell resulted in Ogoni fatalities. Shell has also admitted purchasing weapons
for the police force who guard its facilities, and there is growing suspicion that Shell
funds a much greater portion of the military than previously admitted.

Ken Saro-Wiwa and the Ogoni 8 were leaders
of MOSOP, the Movement for Survival of the Ogoni People. As outspoken environmental and
human rights activists, they declared that Shell was not welcome in Ogoniland. On November
10, 1995, they were hanged after a trial by a special military tribunal (whose decisions
cannot be appealed) in the murder of four other Ogoni activists. The defendants' lawyers
were harassed and denied access to their clients. Although none of them were near the town
where the murders occurred, they were convicted and sentenced to death in a trial that
many heads of state strongly condemned for a stunning lack of evidence, unmasked
partiality towards the prosecution and the haste of the trial. The executions were carried
out a mere eight days after the decision. Two witnesses against the MOSOP leaders admitted
that Shell and the military bribed them to testify against Ken Saro-Wiwa with promises of
money and jobs at Shell. Ken's final words before his execution were:
"The struggle continues!"

Three years in the making, this
cinťma-vťritť feature from acclaimed filmmaker Joe Berlinger is the epic story of one
of the largest and most controversial legal cases on the planet. An inside look at the
infamous $27 billion Amazon Chernobyl case, CRUDE is a real-life high stakes legal drama
set against a backdrop of the environmental movement, global politics, celebrity activism,
human rights advocacy, the media, multinational corporate power, and rapidly-disappearing
indigenous cultures. Presenting a complex situation from multiple viewpoints, the film
subverts the conventions of advocacy filmmaking as it examines a complicated situation
from all angles while bringing an important story of environmental peril and human
suffering into focus.

The Veritas Show with Mel Fabregas is a
weekly show exploring exopolitics, UFO and paranormal phenomenon, conspiracies and current
world events. Here, he speaks with James Fox, a seasoned journalist and documentary film
maker, on the ground at the Gulf Oil Spill who tells of his experience since he arrived
there, 8 June 2010. ["A few minutes ago, I conducted a short interview with
documentary filmmaker, James Fox. He is presently in Grand Isle, Louisiana . The closest
location to the Gulf oil spill. Before I spoke to James I received a few unsubstantiated
reports that I put on the side. What I'm about to share with you is extremely important.
There is an absolute MEDIA BLACKOUT in the area. People are being arrested everywhere.
Hotels in a 70-mile radius are completely sold out, yet, you don't see any vans or
reporters filming. It's as if the entire area was under siege. James Fox has witnessed
this and he basically just arrived. He says he saw multiple Chevron helicopters flying. He
has not seen any military activity. It's as if the oil companies had taken over. James
expected to rent a plane to fly over it and that is not possible. The area above the oil
spill is now a NO-FLY-ZONE. He will be there for two weeks.

BP's deals with Iran

Cheney's Halliburton involved in
Gulf oil spill

Oil Spill Is "Cultural
Genocide" for Gulf Indians?

The town of Grand Bayou, Louisiana, has no
streets and no cars, just water and boats. And now the Deepwater Horizon oil spill in the
Gulf of Mexico threatens the very existence of the Atakapa-Ishak Indians who live there.
"We're facing the potential for cultural genocide," says one tribe member.

Oilpocalypse: Divers' underwater
video of BP oil spill disaster

BP Chief Operating Officer Doug Suttles
continues to insist no massive underwater oil plumes in 'large concentrations' have been
detected from the spill in the Gulf of Mexico. But deep underwater - the oil is so thick
that it blocks out almost all of the light below. As seen on AP video images filmed by
divers 64 kilometers off the coast of Venice, Louisiana.